To say nothing of betraying the community who had been supporting them for over seven years.

They didn't betray me, and I've been playing since Guild Wars: Prophecies. Please do not speak for us all.

I mean, you guys all understand that doing Fractals of the Mist is completely optional right? There is no "gear grind." Agony Resistance is absolutely useless outside of Fractals, and it's not like full exotics doesn't get the job done anywhere.

Baldur The Bold, on 19 November 2013 - 08:28 PM, said:

The people that don't like fractals are completely left out, guess we wait again for another 3 week. More time gating content

First of all, it's two weeks. Is that really a long wait?

Second of all, this is like all the players complaining about ArenaNet actually taking the time to create the Super Adventure Box. "Oh, this content isn't for me. Why do I have to wait?" Because some players, God forbid, actually have different interests than you do. I happen to very much enjoy Fractals even despite the fact that I hated many of the mechanics behind it: being encouraged only to run evens, character-based progression, and the admonishment of any build that isn't 30 points into the Power tree without full Berserker gear.

And while this update does little to fix the latter issue, it certainly does a lot to fix the former two. And for that I am happy. I'm sorry you feel betrayed, but there's a lot of other things to do in this game that aren't Fractals if you don't want to do them.

Better in the long run is those two guys destroying everything. So keep them healed up.

Yepp, and take away their endurance bar, and selfheal, cuz from now on, every person who gears into berserker deserves a dedicated team of healers.
I came here because i liked the idea of not having roles.. if i want to be a healer, i would just go back to WoW, I don't care if a fight takes longer cuz ppl use gear with some survival stats, and if they want to go glasscannon, okay but don't make the game harder for me in the process.

Sure at the end everyone had obsi armor... but when the game came out and one ecto was 20k nearly no one had it.
7 Months on from launch... I would reckon more people have legendaries in GW2 then had Obsi armor in GW1.